Final resting places of infamous criminals

May 13, 2013 |Chron.com staff with text and research by the AP

Whether it’s a genocidal dictator or a gunman behind a mass shooting, debate often flares about where the notorious should be laid to rest.

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LEE HARVEY OSWALD: BURIED

John F. Kennedy’s assassin was shot to death at a Dallas police station two days after the president was killed in 1963. Oswald was never put on trial, but authorities concluded he was the killer.

His body was exhumed in 1981 from a cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas, to put to rest theories that Oswald’s body wasn’t actually there. Authorities used dental records to conclude the remains did, indeed, belong to the man who shot the president in 1963.

The body was then reburied at Rose Hill Memorial Cemetery in Fort Worth.
The assassin’s original coffin was auctioned off in 2011 to an anonymous bidder for nearly $87,500. His brother, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, later sued the Texas funeral home and a California auction house.

John F. Kennedy’s assassin was shot to death at a Dallas police station two days after the president was killed in 1963. Oswald was never put on trial, but authorities concluded he was the killer.

His body was exhumed in 1981 from a cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas, to put to rest theories that Oswald’s body wasn’t actually there. Authorities used dental records to conclude the remains did, indeed, belong to the man who shot the president in 1963.

The body was then reburied at Rose Hill Memorial Cemetery in Fort Worth.
The assassin’s original coffin was auctioned off in 2011 to an anonymous bidder for nearly $87,500. His brother, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, later sued the Texas funeral home and a California auction house.